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Indeed the very act of bringing it out and showing it to the Light would be in itself a momentous conversion and pave the way to the final victory. For the laying bare of each falsehood is in itself a victory—each acknowledgment of error is the demolition of one of the lords of Darkness. It may be an acknowledgment to oneself, provided it is absolutely honest and is no subtle regret apt to be forgotten the next moment and without the strength to make an unbreakable resolution not to repeat the mistake.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/victory-over-falsehood#p2</ref>

It is only when one is consciously identified with his divine Origin that he can speak with complete truthfulness of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of a progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms it inhabits. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a plunging view of the path already traversed, and one remembers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/undated-1957-4#p3</ref>

The only salvation is in an absolute sincerity and truthfulness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p26</ref>

Absolute truthfulness must govern life if one wants to be close to the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/truth#p3</ref>

There is only one thing needed to make anyone fit for the Mother's grace—it is a perfect sincerity and a truthful openness to the Mother in all the being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/sincerity#p2</ref>

Become truthful, pure, sincere, straightforward. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-right-way-of-loving-the-mother#p11</ref>

Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/truth#p4</ref>

All that is good, truthful and progressive is never destroyed by her. On the contrary, she protects and sustains it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/kali-mahakali-mahalakshmi-mahasaraswati#p10</ref>

When a child wants to impress you by telling you stories of the wealth of his family, you must not keep quiet. You must explain to him that worldly wealth does not count here, only the wealth that has been offered to the Divine has some value; that you do not become big by living in big houses, travelling by first-class and spending money lavishly. You can increase in stature only by being truthful, sincere, obedient and grateful.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p117</ref>

The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when men understand that they must be truthful even in their international dealings.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/new-year-messages#p37</ref>

In reality, even for a purely egoistic reason, to do good, to be just, straight, honest is the best means to be quiet and peaceful, to reduce one's anxiety to a minimum. And if, besides, one could be disinterested, free from personal motives and egoism, then it would be possible to become truly happy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p105</ref>

Honesty is the best protection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p1</ref>

We always come back to the same thing: the absolute necessity for perfect sincerity, perfect honesty and a sense of the dignity of all we do so that we may do it as it should be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-10-1958#p4<ref>

Be courageous, enduring, vigilant; above all, be sincere, with perfect honesty.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/messages-for-the-annual-demonstration-of-physical-culture#p10</ref>

Nature recognises a clear, honest and recognisable knock at her doors and gives the result with an answering scrupulosity and diligence. And it is good that the spirit of the Master should leave its trace in his followers, that somewhere in India there should be a body of whom it can be said that when a work is seen to be necessary and right, the men will be forthcoming, the means forthcoming and that work will surely be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/01/dayananda-the-man-and-his-work#p10</ref>

==Role of Honesty for Transformation in Different Parts of the being==

The condition [for the change of the lower vital] is that you must bring the sadhana into your physical consciousness and live for the sadhana and the Divine only. You must give up positively the bad habits that still persist and never resume those that have ceased or been interrupted. Inner experiences are helpful to the mind and higher vital for change, but for the lower vital and the outer being a sadhana of self-discipline is indispensable. The external actions and the spirit in them must change—your external thoughts and actions must be for the Divine only. There must be self-restraint, entire truthfulness, a constant thought of the Divine in all you do. This is the way for the change of the lower vital. By your constant self-dedication and self-discipline the Force will be brought down into the external being and the change made.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p27</ref>

===Honesty in the Soul===

There is no reason for despondency; when one has progressed as far as you did, that is, so far as to feel and maintain the calm and have so much of the psychic discrimination and the psychic feeling, one has no right to despair of one's spiritual future. You could not yet carry out the discrimination into an entire psychic change, because a large part of the outer physical consciousness still took some pleasure in old movements and therefore their roots remained alive in the subconscient. When you were off your guard the whole thing rose up and there was a temporary and violent lapse. But this does not mean that the nature is not changeable. Only the calm inner conscious poise, the psychic discrimination and above all a will to change, stronger and steadier than before, must be so established that no uprising or invasion will be able to cloud even partly the discrimination or suspend the will. You saw the truth but this part of the old nature which rose up did not want to acknowledge—it wanted its play and imposed that on you. This time you must insist on a complete truthfulness in the whole being which will refuse to accept any denial of what the psychic discrimination sees or any affirmation or consent anywhere to what it disapproves, spiritual humility and the removal of self-righteousness, self-justification and the wish to impose yourself, the tendency to judge others etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast them out may take time, but if the will to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in the Mother's force, it can be done sooner than now seems possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p6</ref>

=How to Develop Honesty=